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Nuclear Power Plants

Does not produce air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, nitrogen oxides or particulates

It produces only a little waste

Small number of accidents

Low fuel costs

Fuel is easy to transport and reserve

Future designs may be small and modular (SSTAR, etc.)

Disadvantages are:

Nuclear waste is dangerous for thousands of years

Consequences of an accident might be disastrous

There is a risk of nuclear proliferation associated with some designsü

It requires high amount of money to establish a npp

In the past long construction periods and delaying return on investment

Nuclear power is highly controversial, so that nuclear plants were stopped in Europe. (except in Finland, Ukraine, and Russia). Almost all the advantages and disadvantages are discussed in some degree by the advocates for and against nuclear power.

The cost benefits of nuclear power are also in dispute. It is generally agreed that the capital costs of nuclear power are high and the cost of the necessary fuel is lower than other fuel sources. Proponents claim that nuclear power has low running costs; opponents claim that it needs numerous safety systems and this significantly increases running costs.

Some claims that disposal of spent fuel and other nuclear waste is an advantage of nuclear power, because the waste is smaller in quantity than the other similar technologies and the cost of disposal small when it is compared to the value of the power produced. Others list it as a disadvantage because of that the environment cannot be adequately protected from the risk of future leakages from long-term storage.